Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-8-15
[Post from Infoglide] Products, Products Everywhere and Not an Easy Way to Sync
“Product and inventory management (or Product Information Management) across an enterprise is an increasingly widespread problem. There are countless dollars being wasted on ordering, cataloging, and warehousing similar and, worse yet, duplicate parts.”
Evolution of Security: You won’t be put on a TSA “List” if you forget Your ID
“When it comes to security, identity matters. Positively identifying passengers is a critical tool in TSA’s multi-layered approach to security and one that has been bolstered significantly during the past 18 months. . . . TSA collects real-time information from airports across the country so that our operation center can look for patterns and data points of significant security value. The information is only shared with other law enforcement partners on a need-to-know basis. The ability to ‘connect the dots’ on emerging situations can not be underestimated.”
Data Governance and Data Quality Insider: The Data Intelligence Gap: Part One
“Data needs standardization, organization and intelligence, in order to provide for the business. Companies often find themselves in this position because rapid corporate growth tends to have a negative impact on data quality. As the company grows and expands new systems are put in place and new data silos form. During rapid growth, corporations rarely consider the impact of data beyond the scope of the current silo. Time marches on and the usefulness of data decays. Employee attrition leads to less and less corporate knowledge about the data, and a wider gap.”
USA Today: Private planes on TSA’s radar
“The new regulations, expected to be proposed in coming months, stop short of passenger screening, but would aim to prevent someone from flying a small plane, possibly packed with explosives, into a building. Authorities also worry about terrorists transporting hazardous materials or themselves on private aircraft, said Michal Morgan, TSA head of general aviation security.”
“I believe we need to consider the idea of ‘always on’ data quality whereby data quality ‘agents’ appear, each looking to ‘govern’ specific kinds of data to continually monitor and validate that data in the systems where it is created and also to monitor and validate it as it flows. These agents will if necessary need to analyse that data looking for data errors, incomplete information and also to check a name against a watch-list for compliance reasons for example. When these business rules are broken then action is needed to correct that data or complete it or to alert someone if a match on a watch-list occurs. Some of these corrections and completions can occur automatically and some may have to be referred to a data steward if this is not possible.”
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